I have been working at Pima County (Arizona) full-time (More than 5 years)

Pros

In ITD we have great, dedicated people with really good ideas. Once in. Great while a fun project comes along.

Cons

Politics. Politics. Politics. Tom Burke (deputy county admin) thinks he can run IT for the county. Even worse, he thinks his old department can run IT for the county. They can't. If you see an IT job posted for Finance Department run for the hills. Unless you want to constantly deal with inept, micro managing bosses over you then by all means please, apply. Otherwise, avoid.

Advice to Management

Let IT run IT and keep Deputy County Admin and his lackeys out of it. Pima County as a whole loses when you don't let the qualified do their job.

Interesting work and if employed by the right dept. you may be treated well. A health plan and pension plan. A place to build your resume if you have little experience.

Cons

No merit raises, so the slug sitting next to you doing nothing gets the same raise you do. Also due to this, long time employees are sometimes rewarded with managerships (which brings higher pay) without training, leading to managerial problems because they are clueless. Salary is on the low side to start with, but health and pension plans are not as good as they used to be. You may wait years for a raise, and when it comes you find that Huckleberry has raised the amounts you will pay for health and pension, so a 3% raise may only be 1% in actuality.

Advice to Management

Return to a merit raise system, pay better wages and hire fewer people, because better employees often leave and the sloths are left.

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